You're not doomed if you house a home, but just hope our kids aren't bogged down in life by these types of people who live to herd others into fridge boxes like this by systematically making essential living unaffordable.
Oh now I know why crime is increasing in that area😂,also not putting in jail after 18 times car windows smashed,I feel the frustration of those blackys
They just keep voting for these lunatic authoritarian democratic politicians who raise taxes and regulate business to death..to much san franciscan bureaucracy..and the numb citizens keep voting for them..they nest love being abused
People who can't afford to live in the city should move away. The city will be crippled without service industry workers. Do not let them enslave you more. This is not good. You are helping them enslave you.
That’s absurd. People live in the city for work. Lots of people practically sleep at their offices anyway. Don’t buy into the myth of the necessity to have your own place. Some of us enjoy being alone in a crowd. Shared housing is a God send.
I'm a general contractor in the bay. You have to remember the service people already moved decades ago and commute an hour to two hours one way into sf to work everyday
@@chuckxu5910 this isn't Japan , the US has the land to build outward , instead of upwards so each can have their own , price gouging is causing the average citizen to have to live in pods or on the streets.
nobody is forced to live there. They do it because there are incredible opportunities. If they want their own 2 bedroom apartment, they can move to Iowa.
@@matteframeagreed. Plus these are all tech startup owners who probably want to network and share ideas. They probably don’t mind the college dorm setup
@@ScottKaneshiro totally. And what people don't seem to get is that you could rent a room in a house for about the same cost. These places are incubators, that's their benefit. It makes sense to live like this if you want to network and work on projects.
But isn’t this the GenZ attitude. Be a minimalist and own nothing. Rent everything including clothes. I doubt millennials and Gen Z will enjoy society at this level 20 years from now when they’re in their 60s and 70s. But they’re gonna look back and think how stupid they were when they were younger.
@@sew_gal7340 It's a lot higher than 1%. Most of the time the objective is to be successful enough to be bought by someone else. Some people are serial entrepreneurs where they continue to develop and sell one start-up after another.
I lived in a relatively large house with 7 other people, all having our separate bedrooms. That was a nightmare. I couldn't imagine this being any better.
You need to take into account that software engineers experience life by writing code. A pod may be perfect for people whose life is entirely inside a computer.
Couldn’t have said it better. Instead of “when will SF start implementing rent control?! Call your local congressman and make your voice heard!” they say “here’s a lovely bed in a box for $700! How amazing! Isn’t is beautiful?”
@@mariomaldonado4608- dude, you’re comparing a room in a “not so nice area in LA”.. this is SF which is notoriously expensive and in the massively overpriced Bay Area. You’re also ignoring all the other amenities at this place. The cubby is just for sleeping, you still have all the modern furnishings and space of the rest of the house.
@@beckigreen wrong, the bed is all the focus but even at 1:00 you can see some of the communal spaces. There are work stations, shared living space, private meeting room, individual climate control, internet and utilities included, a shared kitchen, laundry restrooms and shower and even a weekly cleaning service for the communal areas.
10 years ago, I was paying $650 a month to rent a bed in a studio apartment that had a restroom with shower & a kitchen. * In Pacific Heights of San Francisco.
@@Kabab They probably could rent a room in someone’s house, and that is what they should be doing in my opinion. Perhaps they do not want to comply with the house rules a family household would have. The area is not zoned for high density residential. The surrounding businesses, etc., did not bargain to have the blight of people coming and going at all hours into this rabbit warren, and hanging around.
Downtown SF pricing has always been top dollar. If people are OK in roommate style living, have an AI tech job nearby, 700 bucks is cheap. Make your month's rent in a few days and save up the rest of your check. Don't have to spend money and time to commute. I'm not 20 anymore so it ain't for me but for some, it can make all the difference in their lives.
@@JRcomments The issue is whether the community should be putting up with this kind of third-world blight.. That is what zoning and the building code are for. It isn’t a homeless shelter dormitory, and I’m not sure the negative effect this has on the area should be permitted just because techies feel like living on a shoestring. Some people would like to run a power cord from their neighbor’s place to their own, and empty their wastewater into the street so they don’t have to pay sewer fees, but it’s not allowed.
In the 1990s, we were paying around $700 to $900 for a two bedroom one bath apartment with one car parking inside the building in the Sunset district in SF.
Japan always does things better. Maybe because they think things through and money isn't the top of the list. Quality and happy customers are. People want quality and. if they are happy, then that's. success without having to advertise or market. Oh, also Japanese are used to. living in tiny spaces so they know what works and what doesn't and a waste of time and money. US businesses, actually most, don't care about quality or happy customers or the foreseeable future. We live in a, "I WANT IT NOW!!" Impatience isn't valuable to anyone.
Only a cheap looking shower curtain for privacy, SAFETY and nowhere to put clothes, computers, etc. ? They also look like they get no ventilation. I felt like my oxygen level dropped to 50%. All those "pods" with a small living area and an even smaller kitchen. TOO CROWDED + STRANGERS = A POSSIBLE REALITY SHOW that know one wants. I bet they didn't have a proof of concept model. As in having people try them out for a several months for FREE! Proof is no participants were interviewed.
what a nightmare I'd rather work retail, live quietly in a small town in other states & have a private studio apartment for $700. This is not worth a start-up. You can start up from any where. I don't know why anyone would do this to themselves. Comes to tell you many of the people we think are smart, are not so smart after all.
I've got nothing against giving people living in an expensive city a more affordable place to sleep, but this is insane, akin to people in Tokyo living in Internet cafes. If your city doesn't pay enough to let you sleep in an actual apartment, room or house, the solution is not to cram everyone into a shelf like they do in Hong Kong - it's to pay people more or make existing living spaces more affordable.
They've had these in Japan for decades, but in Japan people are considerate, clean and respectful. This is going to be scary in SF, rampant drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc
This is call cage room in HK. This type of setting pose major fire hazard. I hope they will not get permit for it. Who ever come up with this idea I hope they will go bankrupt because this is a dump idea
Only if your being assisted by your county Housing Authority Other then that your in a dream world if you think your getting a room for $700. Maybe a couch🛋️
$700 a month to live in a tiny box. And people are proud of this. It's not an achievement, it's a scathing indictment. A snapshot of a the grotesque monstrosity this city has become. Greed has nuked this place and turned it into a dystopian cesspool.
Easy way to interview suckers and hoping hot women/guys are interested. I hope the only people who are interested are just as creepy as them. I want that to be on camera. I hope the news does a follow up. I think those creepy guys are a cautionary tale to ALWAYS do a deep dive into landlords, especially young ones and even more the "entrepreneurs." I bet they already put up hidden cameras. Roommates can't investigate their roommates. That is a bad creepy idea on so many levels that equal 'maybe commuting to work from Dixon isn't so bad after all.'
Having big tech in the city was more of a curse than a gift. Everyone outside of tech and real estate got pushed out and now it’s just overrun by techbros who can afford to live in the Presidio but chose to take up the only semblance of affordable housing.
$700 hundred amonth is ridiculously that's high way robbery it's no safety or real privacy or no where to secure their property. This another high way robbery rental scam!! What a shame that's why people are living else where and in the vehicles now.....smh
$700 divided by $30 is $23 a night. This is a fabulous price for hotels. Hostels - note the added "s", y'all from I Dunno Land - charge more than this in the Bay Area. Who would live in these all the time? Students. Who would live in these part time? Tourists. Whichever, if this makes you panic, don't move to an important city packed onto a tiny peninsula.
This is how office buildings will be repurposed to housing, without expensive restructuring to add enough windows and plumbing. Welcome to the future American Dream. Today it's startup bros in SF, tomorrow it's everyone everywhere. This is the future of housing for the bottom 90%.
Dang $700????? What’s the point of living in a place so expensive you can’t afford to live? Why can’t they make their tech company in a cheaper location?
You can buy a $100,000 house with a monthly mortgage payment of about $700. This is insane that people want to live like this when there are better housing options in other parts of the country.
If only houses cost 100,000. That kind of money gets you the materials and perhaps the labor. Where does the land come from? $80,000 gets you a parking spot. $200,000 gets you a build able lot on the outskirts of town. $340,000 gets you a dump. $450.000 gets you a house. $550,000 gets you a nice house.
I got my 1st apartment in 2003 which was a 1 room efficiency with a tiny kitchenette and regular sized bathroom and a walk-in closet. I paid $300 a month with ALL utilities included. I used the closet as a small makeshift bedroom. That same apartment is now $750 with little upgrades and the neighborhood has gotten significantly worse since 2003. I can't believe that the rent has more than doubled in 21 years. This rental market isn't sustainable.
Makes me feel slightly sorry for them when I have a 2100 sf home on 10 acres with a view all the way across the Sacramento valley that's only costing me $400 per month more than that. And that's not including the fact that I don't have to worry about getting stabbed or walk in the sidewalk deposits from the homeless people.
I would accept this as a backpacker temporarily staying at a hostel. This living situation gets old real quick. As others have mentioned, it might be better living in another city if this is your only option. The surrounding area is probably not pleasant either, filled with addicts and homeless.
This concept is safer than a Dangerous shelter. You have peace of mind that you can go and come as you please. Knowing that your living around a working class that's paying some kind of decency in the concept of paying rent? Respect is in that building.
How would slavery be worse than this? At least owners were responsible for healthcare, food and proper housing of their slaves in most empires across the world throughout time.
$700? This is insane! We are doomed!
People dont have to live their either.
But also, yes, we are doomed.
I guess the street is cheaper
Many incarcerated individuals get a bigger space in a cell
@@laurab9518yeah but they spend 20+ hours a day in it
You're not doomed if you house a home, but just hope our kids aren't bogged down in life by these types of people who live to herd others into fridge boxes like this by systematically making essential living unaffordable.
Inmates have bigger living spaces. What is this man
😂
The responses here are wild. How is everyone not seeing that this is a whole house? Only your bed is that pod.
Fr, right
And they're free too, except for the minor inconvenience of freedom from freedom.
Oh now I know why crime is increasing in that area😂,also not putting in jail after 18 times car windows smashed,I feel the frustration of those blackys
How disgusting to charge $700 a month for a small pod! This country needs an overhaul
Trump!!!
Vote Trump!!!
Trump!
Harris! She's the one worried about people getting ripped off. Trump probably wishes he'd done the pod thing himself.
@@nancyoconnor4420 He lost again. Give it up already.
coffin apartments here we come...they have these in china and its considered inhumane. like wtf
But in China there is no shared space, like here. Not that I want to sleep in a box!
That’s in Hong Kong , not mainland China .
Japan, not China. Japan was the pod country.
@@rtqii Capsule hotel = Japan. These are not hotel rooms, they are meant to be homes like the famous coffin apartments of Kowloon, Hong Kong, CHINA
Not china,Japan and it's called capsule hotel and they are very popular with commuters
No thanks, i rather live in my car for free
You will still have to pay for shower/utilities access and be subject to prevalent temps.
SF has perfect weather for car living.
The parking fee will cost more. And how are you going to shower?
Most people living in pods don't have a car.
@@Bobxchen333people park all over the city for free overnight. Also, a membership to planet fitness is about $15 a month showers included.
Avante Guarde already....who woulda thought..the ole Car as a home...better than this Disease infested Skid Row stack and pack😅
you will live in a pod and eat the bugs as well as you will own nothing and be happy
Rancid disease centers. Bed Bugs get on everyone in those Skid Row like Dives fo dee po.
They just keep voting for these lunatic authoritarian democratic politicians who raise taxes and regulate business to death..to much san franciscan bureaucracy..and the numb citizens keep voting for them..they nest love being abused
@@Z3N_P1AYZ I own my underwear. Prove me wrong
Trump is renting space in your head and not paying the bill.
😂
People who can't afford to live in the city should move away. The city will be crippled without service industry workers. Do not let them enslave you more.
This is not good. You are helping them enslave you.
That’s absurd. People live in the city for work. Lots of people practically sleep at their offices anyway. Don’t buy into the myth of the necessity to have your own place. Some of us enjoy being alone in a crowd. Shared housing is a God send.
Exactly! But looks like it's too late They're all drinking the Kool aid.....
I'm a general contractor in the bay. You have to remember the service people already moved decades ago and commute an hour to two hours one way into sf to work everyday
@@myboloneyhasafirstname6764just make sure you get a pod at the bottom. All the farts are going to go to the top pods.
@@user-pe8il6pd2v The media is dispensing the Kool aid as fast as it can.
Disgusting exploitation. $700 a month for a cot in a shelter?
In Japan it’s very popular for 50 years already
If they're willing to pay who am I to judge? Free country.
@@chuckxu5910 truly sad
@@obsidiankn truly sad
@@chuckxu5910 this isn't Japan , the US has the land to build outward , instead of upwards so each can have their own , price gouging is causing the average citizen to have to live in pods or on the streets.
I'll take the van down by the river Alex.
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I'm in a van down by the ocean. In Hawaii.
Damn, right!
Hahaaaaaa😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
Car break in are too common in SF
$700 to sleep with other people in the same room space? Idiotic AF!
This is what a dystopian nightmare looks like..
'Big Brother' the real nightmare. Will there be cameras, too?
nobody is forced to live there. They do it because there are incredible opportunities. If they want their own 2 bedroom apartment, they can move to Iowa.
@@matteframeagreed. Plus these are all tech startup owners who probably want to network and share ideas. They probably don’t mind the college dorm setup
@@ScottKaneshiro totally. And what people don't seem to get is that you could rent a room in a house for about the same cost. These places are incubators, that's their benefit. It makes sense to live like this if you want to network and work on projects.
You're being very hyperbolic.
$700 for that? Living in a storage unit would be cheaper, cleaner & safer
It’s also bigger to fit your stuff 😅
except that you can't
Except storage unit is also expensive. I was quoted for $1500 a month even for a storage in Daly City to house my car while i was away.
@@pwp8737they should allow one to 😢
@@lestaridalhaar3907i pay $60 a month for a 10x10 storage unit
The Pods are another small step toward: "You will own nothing and you will be happy".
But isn’t this the GenZ attitude. Be a minimalist and own nothing. Rent everything including clothes. I doubt millennials and Gen Z will enjoy society at this level 20 years from now when they’re in their 60s and 70s. But they’re gonna look back and think how stupid they were when they were younger.
This is not improvement. This is real life dystopian nightmare.
It is an improvement. With $700, you can reinvest money to other goals, like furthering your start-up that has yet to turn a profit.
Hope they don’t get permit, $700 for this tiny Pods is ripoff.
I remember $700 for a one bedroom in Sacramento for my dad during his college years, in the 80s.
expensive but prices will only go down if we can increase supply; it's a lot cheaper than renting a studio!
@@MrDarthvis So getting close to a half century ago? When minimum wage was $2.90 in 1980 in California?
It's inhumane, period.
Nobody in the comments asked who got to pay the rent for the building and how much.
$700 a month for no privacy
basically its a mattress. Thats it.
Did you not see the curtain?
@@Alex10daysago lol. Guess not, that makes a real big difference.😂
@@aliciasaracino1233 curtain allows for privacy
The irony of “entrepreneurs” sleeping in boxes while wearing shirts that say “Don’t Die…”
Living the dream, bro!!! 🤷🏽♂️
😂
Rice and beans is the lot of aspiring entrepreneurs. Sacrifices are great, when you start a new business.
@ sure but the percentage of people who make it are like 1%
@@sew_gal7340 It's a lot higher than 1%. Most of the time the objective is to be successful enough to be bought by someone else. Some people are serial entrepreneurs where they continue to develop and sell one start-up after another.
This is really really really really sad. Hong Kong cages.
This is not improvement. This is real life dystopian nightmare.
I lived in a relatively large house with 7 other people, all having our separate bedrooms. That was a nightmare. I couldn't imagine this being any better.
I love how ABC is peddling this like a viable option. Shows where their interests and intentions are .
You need to take into account that software engineers experience life by writing code. A pod may be perfect for people whose life is entirely inside a computer.
Couldn’t have said it better. Instead of “when will SF start implementing rent control?! Call your local congressman and make your voice heard!” they say “here’s a lovely bed in a box for $700! How amazing! Isn’t is beautiful?”
35% office vacancy rate and young people are being "sold" to live like this!?! Shame.
New idea: office to pods. Convert all those empty office spaces to pods.
3rd World for sure...how sick.
@@Bobxchen333 Not a bad idea, but would the city allow it?
@@safeandeffectivelolI hope so. These Pods could be the answer for the homeless crisis. So convert all the empty office spaces to pods.
@@safeandeffectivelol Or would they rather see the buildings sit there and rot?
"Paying high rental prices us not in the equation"
$700 for a box with a piece of fabric hanging over the opening is a high rental price.
Yeah you can get a room with a restroom for 750 a month in downtown LA, not in the best area but at least you have a front door and complete privacy.
@@mariomaldonado4608- dude, you’re comparing a room in a “not so nice area in LA”.. this is SF which is notoriously expensive and in the massively overpriced Bay Area.
You’re also ignoring all the other amenities at this place. The cubby is just for sleeping, you still have all the modern furnishings and space of the rest of the house.
@@HiThisIsMineThere are no amenities.
It’s just for sleeping.
@@beckigreen wrong, the bed is all the focus but even at 1:00 you can see some of the communal spaces. There are work stations, shared living space, private meeting room, individual climate control, internet and utilities included, a shared kitchen, laundry restrooms and shower and even a weekly cleaning service for the communal areas.
700$??? Thats how much it should cost to rent and apartment...
The only place in the country you can rent an apartment for $800 is a tiny town in West Virginia.
We are living in a clown world ...
@@punkagrrlzeroI got a 4 bedroom house for 850.
In Shreveport LA you can get one bedroom small house/apt for 800 a month.... nothing fancy and safety may be a concern.
That was 10 years ago for tenets now it's the double or triple the price
10 years ago, I was paying $650 a month to rent a bed in a studio apartment that had a restroom with shower & a kitchen. * In Pacific Heights of San Francisco.
In 2010 I was renting a whole bedroom in a large house for $650. Inner Sunset right next to UCSF. This is now ridiculous
@@Kabab They probably could rent a room in someone’s house, and that is what they should be doing in my opinion. Perhaps they do not want to comply with the house rules a family household would have. The area is not zoned for high density residential. The surrounding businesses, etc., did not bargain to have the blight of people coming and going at all hours into this rabbit warren, and hanging around.
I paid 400 for a private room with a gym downstairs and an ocean view. Only a decade ago.
Downtown SF pricing has always been top dollar. If people are OK in roommate style living, have an AI tech job nearby, 700 bucks is cheap. Make your month's rent in a few days and save up the rest of your check. Don't have to spend money and time to commute. I'm not 20 anymore so it ain't for me but for some, it can make all the difference in their lives.
@@JRcomments The issue is whether the community should be putting up with this kind of third-world blight.. That is what zoning and the building code are for. It isn’t a homeless shelter dormitory, and I’m not sure the negative effect this has on the area should be permitted just because techies feel like living on a shoestring. Some people would like to run a power cord from their neighbor’s place to their own, and empty their wastewater into the street so they don’t have to pay sewer fees, but it’s not allowed.
You people are crazy. Shame on you for charging 700 bucks for a box.
With all honesty the guys who were interviewed for this piece look creepy.
And lying through their teeth
No doubt Kooks and Perverts. Covid incubator.😅
By State Rules Trans and Queer must be included.
Excluding Women can't be an option. 😮
Scabies on yer mattress much? Transient Lodge. How disgusting.
@@MikeJones-wc4qjNo different from a bed bug rat infested hotel or motel..yes hotels the expensive ones as well.
Looks like a fire and health hazard.
Something like this should be given to the homeless. Why $700 a month for this?
And to think jus a mere 36 years ago, I paid $200 a month for a 3 bedroom farmhouse on 2 acres......
36 years is a long time, & you were in buffoon nowhere, just saying it's a bad analogy
In the 1990s, we were paying around $700 to $900 for a two bedroom one bath apartment with one car parking inside the building in the Sunset district in SF.
36 years ago I was paying nothing in rent wasn’t even born yet boom you got ripped off!
The good old days 😊
These do not meet minimum HUD standards for a human dwelling. Sorry. Next.
SF IS BRIBED BY E.U. THEY WILL APPROVE THIS!!☠️
OMG, Let’s NOT normalise this! The American Dream really is dead if this is the solution. The dystopian future is upon us.
$300 per month would be fair but certainly not $700
What could possibly go wrong? One house with three unrelated people is a nightmare. 30? Imagine the microbes growing in there.
That is insane! Now we pay a fortune for just a bed?
$700 a month is crazy smh, they should come together about 2 or 3 or 4 of them and get a nice house
4 of them could get together and share a 1 br apt for $2800 - Maybe
Disgusting. No doors mean no security. Prison spaces.
I take it they drew inspiration from Japan's capsule hotels
Japan always does things better. Maybe because they think things through and money isn't the top of the list. Quality and happy customers are. People want quality and. if they are happy, then that's. success without having to advertise or market. Oh, also Japanese are used to. living in tiny spaces so they know what works and what doesn't and a waste of time and money.
US businesses, actually most, don't care about quality or happy customers or the foreseeable future. We live in a, "I WANT IT NOW!!" Impatience isn't valuable to anyone.
Inspiration? Maybe but I've never seen one of those capsules look as shabby.
@@martina5296Fair point....
@@martina5296USA hasn't learned ....
Only a cheap looking shower curtain for privacy, SAFETY and nowhere to put clothes, computers, etc. ?
They also look like they get no ventilation. I felt like my oxygen level dropped to 50%.
All those "pods" with a small living area and an even smaller kitchen. TOO CROWDED + STRANGERS = A POSSIBLE REALITY SHOW that know one wants.
I bet they didn't have a proof of concept model. As in having people try them out for a several months for FREE! Proof is no participants were interviewed.
Its not a concept model my disputatious friend. They have other buildings/pods in other town
Watch yer Wallet there. Clear Plastic shower Curtains? Chummy...😅
@@adamsilberman9377yes the new ones come with Cute Petite sleeping companion😅
The new ones include subsidized homeless.😅
@@adamsilberman9377"concept Model"..real Elon Musk stuff😊
what a nightmare I'd rather work retail, live quietly in a small town in other states & have a private studio apartment for $700. This is not worth a start-up. You can start up from any where. I don't know why anyone would do this to themselves. Comes to tell you many of the people we think are smart, are not so smart after all.
What a joke, I love the city but something needs to be done about the absurd rent prices.
I remember when I saw a video years ago about people in China living like this, boxes! What is greed doing to this country?
Capitalist . Keep voting democratic leaders
Nobody wants to be a centrist
Like Prison! But you Pay😊
I've got nothing against giving people living in an expensive city a more affordable place to sleep, but this is insane, akin to people in Tokyo living in Internet cafes. If your city doesn't pay enough to let you sleep in an actual apartment, room or house, the solution is not to cram everyone into a shelf like they do in Hong Kong - it's to pay people more or make existing living spaces more affordable.
They've had these in Japan for decades, but in Japan people are considerate, clean and respectful. This is going to be scary in SF, rampant drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc
You're correct. Japanese society is very different.
Yea people using Drugs in their Coffin. 😮
I've never seen a Japanese capsul/pod looking this shabby.
700 is idiotic
America, this is beyond disgusting. Good god! What are we becoming???
This looks like china
typical ripoff but ya know these fraudster tech startup gets it 😂
More like Porn Site startups and Data Theft guys.
They spend all day stealing online.
How depressing and expensive
700/month is insane 😅😅😅
Ridiculous
Soon it will be $1,000 a month to live in a cardboard box.
Get a van
Get a Life too with the Van and go to somewhere normal😂
I’ve been in the prison system. It’s like the same set up.
Here’s a thought. Move out of the city.
Or the transplants can leave
Better idea : stop voting democratic leaders .
What about these to help out the homeless individuals in San Francisco?
That’s exactly what their purpose should be.
This is call cage room in HK. This type of setting pose major fire hazard. I hope they will not get permit for it. Who ever come up with this idea I hope they will go bankrupt because this is a dump idea
This is nuts!!!😳😳😳😳😳😳
You can rent a room for $700.......
where?
@Jesse-gr2xo my room is a 1000 a month in san jose
@@jeremyperruccio4869I got a 4 bedroom house for 850. Hell with California.
Only if your being assisted by your county Housing Authority
Other then that your in a dream world if you think your getting a room for $700. Maybe a couch🛋️
$700 a month to live in a tiny box. And people are proud of this. It's not an achievement, it's a scathing indictment. A snapshot of a the grotesque monstrosity this city has become. Greed has nuked this place and turned it into a dystopian cesspool.
at most it should be $300
An unsecured pod & storage doesn't sound reasonable.
Hey, creepy dudes who can't get roommates have to live somewhere..
That’s what I was thinking! I had 4 roommates at one time. We had a kitchen,bathroom and a living room! We lived together for 3 years.
Easy way to interview suckers and hoping hot women/guys are interested. I hope the only people who are interested are just as creepy as them. I want that to be on camera. I hope the news does a follow up.
I think those creepy guys are a cautionary tale to ALWAYS do a deep dive into landlords, especially young ones and even more the "entrepreneurs." I bet they already put up hidden cameras.
Roommates can't investigate their roommates. That is a bad creepy idea on so many levels that equal 'maybe commuting to work from Dixon isn't so bad after all.'
YIKES ...
$700/month to LIVE in a BOOKCASE ...
THOSE BOOKCASES look VERY EASY to BREAK INTO ...
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Having big tech in the city was more of a curse than a gift. Everyone outside of tech and real estate got pushed out and now it’s just overrun by techbros who can afford to live in the Presidio but chose to take up the only semblance of affordable housing.
Wouldn’t it be less expensive to just put up walls to create walk-in rooms? The privacy would be just the same
$700 hundred amonth is ridiculously that's high way robbery it's no safety or real privacy or no where to secure their property. This another high way robbery rental scam!! What a shame that's why people are living else where and in the vehicles now.....smh
$700 divided by $30 is $23 a night. This is a fabulous price for hotels. Hostels - note the added "s", y'all from I Dunno Land - charge more than this in the Bay Area. Who would live in these all the time? Students. Who would live in these part time? Tourists. Whichever, if this makes you panic, don't move to an important city packed onto a tiny peninsula.
This is how office buildings will be repurposed to housing, without expensive restructuring to add enough windows and plumbing. Welcome to the future American Dream. Today it's startup bros in SF, tomorrow it's everyone everywhere. This is the future of housing for the bottom 90%.
The grin on the owner's face, he's laughing his ass off all the way to the bank! XD
Dang $700????? What’s the point of living in a place so expensive you can’t afford to live? Why can’t they make their tech company in a cheaper location?
That's just sick what a government
This isn't "the government."
I will not sleep in the pods.
OMG... there is something wrong with people who think this is ok for $700
WE SHALL NOT LIVE IN ZE POD!
So they charge people 700 bucks for using what in essence, a homeless shelter??😂😂😂😂
RIPOFF!!! That’s way to much
Why didn't this article even say how many of these "pods" are shoved into that building! Journalism much?
You can buy a $100,000 house with a monthly mortgage payment of about $700. This is insane that people want to live like this when there are better housing options in other parts of the country.
If only houses cost 100,000. That kind of money gets you the materials and perhaps the labor. Where does the land come from? $80,000 gets you a parking spot. $200,000 gets you a build able lot on the outskirts of town. $340,000 gets you a dump. $450.000 gets you a house. $550,000 gets you a nice house.
at $660,000 now you have a garage and some land.
The smiley owner doesn't even look like he'd fit comfortably in one of those
I got my 1st apartment in 2003 which was a 1 room efficiency with a tiny kitchenette and regular sized bathroom and a walk-in closet. I paid $300 a month with ALL utilities included. I used the closet as a small makeshift bedroom.
That same apartment is now $750 with little upgrades and the neighborhood has gotten significantly worse since 2003.
I can't believe that the rent has more than doubled in 21 years.
This rental market isn't sustainable.
Makes me feel slightly sorry for them when I have a 2100 sf home on 10 acres with a view all the way across the Sacramento valley that's only costing me $400 per month more than that. And that's not including the fact that I don't have to worry about getting stabbed or walk in the sidewalk deposits from the homeless people.
Truly, people have lost it paying that much to live like a chicken confine into a little cubicle. That is crazy. I’m very inhumane, but oh well.
I would accept this as a backpacker temporarily staying at a hostel. This living situation gets old real quick.
As others have mentioned, it might be better living in another city if this is your only option. The surrounding area is probably not pleasant either, filled with addicts and homeless.
PODS like 2001 Space Odyssey😢
It’s like Japón they do that close to the train station that way people can move around the city 🌆
Boy, my $714 a month studio with my own porch doesn't seem so small now. I am sure they can do tech start up/software freelance in any other city.
They are out of their minds and as usual out of touch with reality. Who is stupid enough to pay $700 a month for a coffin?
Thier taking advantage of people in need its as simple as that .
Someone renting the space above you in the same room just makes my skin crawl
Great now have the homeless pay rent
Not in Washington State. Here you need at least 3,000,000 $ to buy something outside of the city
unless you want a 1,400,000 $ condo that has no yard.
The only entrepreneur is the black guy real estate pod developer
imagine the roach and bedbug infestation in these places.
No doubt crabs and Scabies and head lice and Flu Virus as winter approaches.
Same as a nasty hotel or restaurant with roaches.
Work Slaves. Similar to farm workers😮 Truck Stops used to have these. Seems delightful.
This concept is safer than a Dangerous shelter. You have peace of mind that you can go and come as you please. Knowing that your living around a working class that's paying some kind of decency in the concept of paying rent?
Respect is in that building.
Can your team please figure out a uniform level for the TH-cam audio?
I have the tv at "100" and can barely hear it still.
Excuse me, Luz's audio is boosted... but still.
How depressing
How would slavery be worse than this? At least owners were responsible for healthcare, food and proper housing of their slaves in most empires across the world throughout time.
That looks like it should cost 10 dollars. TEN. Maybe 15 max.
Greed at its finest. Wow